Saturday, 31 May 2014

The Portraits of An
Imagined Past explores individual ancestry, identity and memory through the
making and performing of a series of “living portraits.”
Participants/artists investigated their personal histories, identified a person
of interest from their past, and then researched this person to embody them in
the present. They use imagination, interpretation and memory as tools to
reconstruct the lives and stories of their family members, and in this process
reveal their own perspective of who they are, set against the backdrops of
their histories.

Concept and Project Leader: Sean Frey
In collaboration with the Community Arts Guild

Friday, 30 May 2014

The Water Thief is an
interdisciplinary performance project conceived by Sean Frey and Amy Siegel,
that layers film, live performance, music and projection art. This “living
film” is set in an abandoned East Coast town, where Charon maintains a
clepsydra (trans. ‘water thief’), a giant clock run by water. Over three
nights, he is visited by a whale and spirits from his past. On the ﬁnal night,
Charon enters the whale and is completely immersed in the vivid and wild world
of the afterlife.

Performing at SummerWorks Festival, August 2014.

Funded by The Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council.

Saturday, 8 June 2013

This short film follows the journey of a woman lost in a new country, only to come upon memories of a time forgotten. A Community Arts Guild film, directed by Sean Frey and Sonja Rainey. Concept by Sean Frey and Beth Helmers, with vocals by Sharada Eswar, percussion by Sarma Donepudi, strings by Rebecca Bruton. Core performers: Sulogini Sothynathan, Pathma M, Paramesh, Yogeswary Kumarespasopathy, Nages Rajaratnam, Pathini Krishnamourthy, and the Storefront Tamil Seniors.

Wednesday, 6 March 2013

This is a piece, recorded by an audience member, created by Andrea de Keijzer, Clea Minaker and I, for Weday Saskatoon. I created and performed the projections with the choreography that was created by Andrea. February 2013.